Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms.